Book Reviews—China
Drama Kings: Players and Publics in the Re-creation of Peking Opera, 1870–1937. By Joshua Goldstein. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. xi, 371 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
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Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan. By Nancy Guy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. xv, 230 pp. $35.00 (cloth).
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Legitimacy, Meaning and Knowledge in the Making of Taiwanese Identity. By Mark Harrison. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. ix, 254 pp. $69.95 (cloth).
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- 13 February 2008, pp. 276-277
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Beyond Compliance: China, International Organizations, and Global Security. By Ann Kent. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. xvi, 334 pp. $65.00 (cloth).
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The Party and the Arty in China: The New Politics of Culture. By Richard C. Kraus. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. 249 pp. $91.00 (cloth), $32.95 (paper).
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- 13 February 2008, pp. 279-281
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Landscape and Power in Early China: The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045–771 BC. By Li Feng. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xviii, 405 pp. $100.00 (cloth).
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- 13 February 2008, pp. 281-284
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Allegorical Architecture: Living Myth and Architectonics in Southern China. By Xing Ruan. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006. xiii, 219 pp. $45.00 (cloth).
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Unbounded Loyalty: Frontier Crossings in Liao China. By Naomi Standen. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. xiii, 279 pp. $53.00 (cloth).
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Tracking the Banished Immortal: The Poetry of Li Bo and Its Critical Reception. By Paula M. Varsano. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2003. ix, 381 pp. $49.00 (cloth).
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The Power of Position: Beijing University, Intellectuals, and Chinese Political Culture, 1898–1929. By Timothy B. Weston. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. xiii, 325 pp. $60.00 (cloth).
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Saving the Nation: Economic Modernity in Republican China. By Margherita Zanasi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xi, 320 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
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Historicizing Online Politics: Telegraphy, the Internet, and Political Participation in China. By Zhou Yongming. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006. xi, 290 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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Book Reviews—Inner Asia
Afghan Nomads: Caravans, Conflicts and Trade in Afghanistan and British India 1800–1980. By Klaus Ferdinand. Copenhagen: Rhodos International Science and Art Publishers, 2006. 1 pp. DKK 330.00.
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The Mongols in Iran: Chingiz Khan to Uljaytu 1220–1309. By Judith Kolbas. London: Routledge, 2005. 414 pp. $170.00 (cloth).
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Sogdian Traders: A History. By Étienne de la Vaissière. Translated by James Ward. Leiden: Brill, 2005. xiv, 410 pp. $199.00 (cloth).
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Radical Islam in Central Asia: Between Pen and Rifle. By Vitaly V. Naumkin. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 283 pp. $32.95 (paper).
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Central Asian Textiles and Their Contexts in the Early Middle Ages. Edited by Regula Schorta. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2006. 316 pp. $130.00/€72.00 (paper).
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Trudy o Mongolii i dlia Mongolii. 2 vols. By A. D. Simukov. Edited by Yuki Konagaya, Sanjaasüren Bayaraa, and Ichinkhorloo Lkhagvasüren. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2007. Vol. 1, 976 pp. Vol. 2, 635 pp.
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Book Reviews—Japan
Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period. By Mary Elizabeth Berry. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. xvii, 325 pp. $60.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).
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The Aesthetics of Quietude: Ōta Shōgo and the Theatre of Divestiture. By Mari Boyd. Tokyo: Sophia University Press, 2006. xii, 293 pp. ¥3,086 (cloth). - Theorizing the Angura Space: Avant-Garde Performance and Politics in Japan, 1960–2000. By Peter Eckersall. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xix, 240 pp. $125.00 (cloth).
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